"I shall tell you a great secret my friend..."

         got stunk in lafayette
sprayed with a very noxious smelling stuff
in my home/van/castle
eventually it will go away but it is a violation
of my civil rights
as usual

spent time on the internet
saw way too much child pornography
someone is not doing their job
someone said that it was too hard to look at
well
people who do not like dog fights have to go to
dog fights to stop the dogs fights
I suppose when thousands go online
and look for illicit material there will
be less of it around
pretty saddening viewing

as usual the constabulary are harassing me
for imagined offenses
I am making a list of all the times I get
harassed so that when I go to court and ask
for monetary recompense for my stress
there will be no doubt in the minds of the jurors
as to what has been happening to me

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend.
Do not wait for the last judgement.
It takes place every day."  Albert Camus "The Fall"

Private Henry Gunther of Baltimore...10:59 AM

"There is nothing harder..."

                                         box turtle and toad come to visit my campsite


had to rescue two raccoons this morning
caught in the dumpster
they found and ate my last pack of cookies
last night because I left them outside
with a bag of oatmeal
which they also ate
as well as my popcorn
that is the thing about raccoons
they eat anything they find
they even chewed on some of my teabags
but I still felt bad when I saw them in the
dumpster this morning
so I dragged a tree limb over and put it in
the dumpster and they climbed out

lots of strange folks show up at the campsite
cant figure out why so many weirdos show up

"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference"
                                                          Juan Montalvo

saxatile

"Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragons teeth..."

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST ARTICLES I HAVE READ ON THE MEXICAN PEOPLE


"Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragons teeth.
Our children know and suffer the armed men."  Stephen Vincent Benet

Grace Mendoza

"And the end of the fight..."

                                                    shore birds on Pensacola Bay


finally rented a campsite at the federal seashore
fort pickens...used to be over-run with raccoons and skunks
now the raccoons are much less
but the two legged skunks are very numerous

got the snorkel gear and loaded it on the bike
rode across the road to the beach
suited up and was amazed at how many fish there were
mostly mullet and some small fish with yellow tails
the small fish followed me around
perhaps thinking I was a manatee getting ready
to poop
or a big fish that would make a kill of a mullet and leave some
pieces behind for them
but I was just gliding around and enjoying the underwater
views
money and time well spent
bought a new camera at the pawn shop that is supposed to
be waterproof  to three feet deep   but I was afraid to put it in the water
anyhow I did see these shorebirds from the fishing pier and
thought they were a good subject
I just bought a new bird guide for 75 cents but did not look them
up yet...so I will call them the " long lipped stilt legs"

also did some "Pliking, or riding the bike and picking
up trash...it has become very popular in Europe...not
so much here yet...too much spandex I suppose

also looked up what the rules are about
WHISTLE BLOWING
the U.S. government recovered $2.6 billion dollars
in 2017 from fraudulent overcharges
and this is the good part
it paid $262 million dollars to people for helping
to prosecute the thieves
it is called the
QUI TAM or false claims act
first used in 1863 when it was reported
that folks were selling
ailing mules to the military
so when you think
more than 700 bucks a day is a bit much to
take care of a confiscated kid  at the border
just do some investigating and help prove
that we are are being robbed

"And the end of the flight is a tombstone white
       with the name of the late deceased.
And the epitaph dreer, "A fool lies here who
         tried to hustle the east."  Rudyard Kipling

KATABATIC

"The deadliest enemies of nations... "

                                                         surveillance state politics

i am of the opinion that half of this country
is spying
on the
other half of this country

but from what i can tell
it is not the first time that
citizens have become neurotically
obsessed
with other peoples business

now I think it is a citizens responsibility to
take notice of what appears to be
unlawful acts

but most people are either so
narrow in their experiences
that they do not know what
may be a criminal act
or so jaded
by being around criminal activity
that they think
everyone is engaged in crime

somewhere between these two extremes
is the truth
but as Mark Twain said
"Truth is rare, let us economize it"
or something to that effect

my own experience is that society
is neurotic and a person would
do well to take that into account
when dealing with the population
at large

"The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes;
they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal
enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation
blessed above all nations is that nation in whom the civic genius of
the people does the saving day by day, acts without external
picturesqueness' by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting
corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people
knowing the true men and women when they see them, and preferring
them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks."  William James (1897)


GOT CITIZENSHIP?

Philo Vance

"New occasions teach new duties..."

                                               TRICKSTER COYOTE

decided to set up the game camera
mosquitoes were very numerous so
I was fast
next morning I looked at the memory card
and no new images
but the kitchen food scrap pile had been eaten
so I downloaded the internal memory in the camera
onto the SD card
and apparently the memory card did not record any images
but the camera was triggered
by this coyote
I guess the coyote may have wanted to remain anonymous
and detached the memory card
or
maybe I was in such a hurry I did not push it in
all the way
however this is the image I got but in 3 mega pixel
instead of the usual 20
I like to think the coyotes are going to be, as the
native Americans said
THE LAST ANIMALS ON EARTH

"New occasions teach new duties; time makes
                          ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who
             would keep abreast of Truth."
                                                 James Russel Lowell

John Hume Ross

"That mysterious independent variable..."

too much politics
better than no politics I suppose
watching History Channel DVD about
"Mankind"
now in San Francisco it will be called
"HUMANKIND"
which is a good idea
language needs to be attended to

Ghetto= first ghetto was in Venice, Italy
which was the name for a metal foundry
an all Jew had to live there in 1516

"That mysterious independent variable
of political calculation. Public Opinion  T.H. Huxley

Gabrielle Emilie du Marquise Chatelet